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Mackay Slideshow
Top Hotels in Mackay
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Clarion Hotel Marina Mackay
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Grand Mercure Suites Mackay
32 reviews
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Seabreeze Resort Hotel Mackay
9 reviews
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White Lace Motor Inn Mackay
11 reviews
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Comfort Inn Marco Polo Motel Mackay
16 reviews -
Ocean International Hotel Mackay
16 reviews
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Alara Plaza Motel Mackay
5 reviews
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Country Comfort Mackay
12 reviews -
Dolphin Heads Resort Mackay
19 reviews
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Illawong Beach Resort Mackay
8 reviews
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Broken River Mountain Resort Mackay
31 reviews -
Best Western Windmill Motel Mackay
27 reviews
Mackay
Travel Blogs from Mackay, Australia
Family Connections
This is a top pick! ... coming from Scotland. Returning with Nigel and Angus they gave me a quick tour of the area and the beaches around Mackay driving past fields and fields of sugarcane and a few pineapple patches before arriving home. With them offering to put me up ...
Monsoon in Mackay
This is a top pick! ... and very costly. We had to cancel our upcoming accommodation on Magnetic Island (just off Townsville, about 385km's north from Mackay) and seems as though we'll also have to cancel our sailing and diving trip in Cairns (another 400km's north ...
Dangerous Waters
This is a top pick! Up early in this morning as the family got ready to go to work and school as I felt a little guilty at being the only one not rushing about in the morning. But only a little. Went for a walk along a few of the many beaches in the area with lovely ...
Rocket Man
This is a top pick! I've always dreamed of traveling into space and today I would be one step closer with the construction of Mackay's very own space program with the help of some elastic bands, selloptape, an empty bottle and some spare plastic piping. Alice had a school ...
The one where the car breaks down....
This is a top pick! ... start charging. But it so could have easily been 50! Anyhow we ended up in (probably) the smallest town in Australia Carmila. Imagine.... a pub, a 24hr service station (I don't think I would have survived without the pies bought when hungry!) a ...
Paul's Birthday
This is a top pick! We arrived in Mackay the day before my birthday and stayed in a free campsite just 30 minutes from Mackay. We stayed beside the Pony club stands and generally just ate and got drunk to celebrate the 8th anniversary of my 21st Birthday. The next morning ...
Platypus spotting in Mackay
This is a top pick! Mackay is a very small and quiet town, with a botanic garden, art gallery, orchid house and river boardwalk. Its main attraction though is the Eungella National Park. This is one of the best places to view a platypus in the wild. We stayed at the YHA ...
Gympie to Mackay - Day 221
This is a top pick! An epic 14 hour, 900km drive to Mackay today. Did have a couple of short breaks but I was totality exhausted when I settled down for a sleep this evening. The drive was really monotonous, not a lot to see along the way, that's why I just kept on driving. ...
Mr Mackay - mmmkaaay!
This is a top pick! ... to Sydney for the 23rd. We set off a bit later this morning to make sure all alcohol was out the system and headed off for Mackay. We found a van park near town called Central Tourist Park. It looks like it's run by drug addicts and drunks, but it was ...
Whit or Whit out you
This is a top pick! Friday February 13th Bugger. My bus south to Townsville was cancelled as the Tully River had burst its banks and had made the road impassable. Back it was to the hostel and the room I shared with three crazy Kiwi chicks, so it wasn't all bad. I spent ...
Mackay
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Mackay in our entry from Melbourne, Australia entitled 'Found Nemo, Lost Sydney.....and much more.....'. Cheers, K & ...
Richtung Norden / Moving on up
... . Before the journey there we opted for a nice weekend at Cape Hilsborough National Park, a lovely area and coastal hideaway near Mackay. We were camped right by the beach there and we had a lovely couple of days walking on the beach, exploring the ...
Crikey, We're Dumb!!
... day fun"...did I just get propositioned?!? Eventually we clued in that Cyclone Hamish was bearing down on north-eastern Australia. Confirming that a cyclone is the same thing as a hurricane helped explain the "expected to strengthen to a ...
Australia 0 Brazil 2!!!
We only really stopped here to break up the journey on the way to Airlie Beach. We did get to watch the Aussie 'World Cup Footy Show' in a pub, notable only because it contained no real information about Football! They really don't know what to say about ...
Bucasia Beach
We got the last spot at Bucasia beachfront camp ground just outside Mackay and headed straight for a walk along the beach! We were visited by the local wildlife too – a possum in the ...
Cania Gorge and Cape Hillsborough
... One even had a 5th wheel much like ours!! We all sat by the fire and talked about life in the US and Australia and had quite a wonderful time. Of course we are now invited to stay with all of them on our next trip!! ...
The Adventure Begins (Again)
... farewells to our hosts as well as Yolanda and Micheal who had accompanied us out there, and drove off. All the way up to Mackay. Mackay is a small coastal city that is very industrial but pretty. It reminds me of Everett a lot. A working city with little ...
More bloody scenery....
... lot of 'em since we left. There is an Alligator Creek too which as we all know is erroneous as there are no alligators in Australia, well there may be some in zoos, and the name comes from el lagarto, the Spanish term for "lizard", funnily enough the word ...
Mysterious Monotreme
... or 9 inches. We hoped for a fuzzy glimpse of this oh-so-difficult to spot natural wonder and were rewarded with fabulous sightings beyond our wildest dreams. Broken River should be (but thankfully isn`t) on every travellers `must do in Australia` ...
Aehm...do you speak english?
Ich hab von Mackay aus einen Tagesausflug zum Eungella Nationalpark gemacht, der bekannt ist für das Schnabeltier. Und wir hatten das Glück auch wirklich eins zu sehen! Hab mir dieses Tierchen ganz anders vorgestellt, so ungefähr in der Groeße eines ...
Lunch stop!
We stopped here for lunch, the campground we were hoping to stay at was full unfortunately! So we had a stroll along the beach before heading onto towards Mackay where we stayed for the ...
Mackay
Thursday 3rd May. Early again! Got the ferry from Nelly Bay to Townsville and then boarded another GreyHound bus, this time to Mackoy. It was about 5hours on the bus again but sleeping is a good way to pass the time. When we got to Mackoy we got ...
Can you tell what it is yet?
... the battery that powered the fridge etc for a few days and so as we passed the first big town we had been through in days (Mackay), we decided to get it sorted. We had seen that Eungella National Park was nearby and after a chat with the information ...
My time in Mackay
... have actually checked that first, but oh well. Sorry it's been a while since my last post. Internet was really expensive in Mackay. Right now I'm actually back in Cairns, but I marked this Mackay because that's what it's about. >>>Our first day of ...
Mackay - Australia's sugar cane capital
... , we had been promised a lift to the airport, 3 hours before our flight was due to leave but we took it. When we arrived at Mackay's airport, we saw that our flight was leaving 1 and a half hours early than we though. So we made it with time to spare but ...
